Increasing your Magic: the Gathering Business in a Growing Market
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Join us as we discuss everything from best practices of tournament management, to using Star City Games in-Store Programs like the Open Trial to create an advantage in an ever competitive market.
We will discuss the ways in which gaming and game mechanics have been used at Todd Academy, Inc. in middle school art and science, and elementary school classrooms to great effect.
Librarians we are going to discuss how to select games by age level, where to find these games, marketing your programs, and how to make the games available.
Games suited for elementary, middle and high school classes, as well as home taught students. Providing an overview of how they can be aligned to curriculum requirements
Gamification of education involves using gaming elements to alter learning and engagement. Students can be motivated through paths of mastery and autonomy commonly found in gaming technologies.
Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sites have created an opportunity for passionate designers to share their ideas and gather support to make those games into reality.
Gaming in the Classroom: Game Mechanics Across the Disciplines
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Teachers from Todd Academy, Inc. will introduce ways in which they have used gamification to help learners approach difficult theoretical concepts and ethical concerns within a student-led framework.
The tower is back, and the Icons are moving to control an artifact of Achmos. Pre-gen characters provided. Generate Uniques, Backgrounds, and Icons then play.
Calliope Games has teamed up with Sharp As A Tack in supporting the use of games in the classroom. Learn what we are doing and how it can increase sales traffic in your store.
A micro-Reacting game with whoever decides to attend. The games are easy to scale. There will be color-coded handouts that are brief versions of the role sheets students use in the game to read.
Making a Difference for Youth Through Experiential Learning, or LARP's
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We will explore how experiential learning is more effective than other forms of learning, and why LARPs and RPGs are highly effective forms of experiential learning.
Introducing people to gaming can affirm many people's negative stereotypes. So how do you get someone to try it without making them cringe at the sight of a polyhedron?
Playing a Story: Creative Writing for Students Through Non-Digial Interactive Text Game Design
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Brian Mayer leads a hands-on session into how game design engages students with the writing process in a meaningful way while meeting the needs of the new Common Core Curriculum.
In today’s ultra-competitive world where you can scan a barcode with a smartphone for instant price comparison, it is more important than ever that consumers see our stores as a destination.
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In this seminar we will discuss how to differentiate your store in value added service such as family game nights, in-store demonstrations, game competitions and more
Discovering "Life in Colors" author George J. Boelcke
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Discussing how to understand and communicate with your children as well as other adults based on personality traits.
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Discussing how to understand and communicate with your children as well as other adults based on personality traits. Help your children and students learn, communicate and express ideas. Just as no one has ever learned to drive a car simply by reading the manual, growth in understanding ourselves and others involves an active, participatory and continuous journey. The insights of Colors is one-half awareness and one-half choosing to value others for who they are, instead of wanting them to be more like ourselves."
We will explore methods of incorporating gaming into lesson planning. This seminar will focus on topics in mathematics taught at the High School and College levels.
A special scenario with gameplay influenced by Call of Duty: Zombies! Turn on the power, get to the Mystery Box, and grab yourselves some Wonder Weapons!
A picture is worth a thousand words. Can you pick the right ones that will allow some, but not all, of the other players to pick your card out of a line up.
Michael Jackson's iconic THRILLER is always useful! This tutorial is specifically for novice and less confident dancers. Your instructors are TAGteach-certified to help you achieve your best.
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Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is an iconic dance, and always useful -- and you can learn it. Yes, you! This tutorial is specifically for novice and less confident dancers (experts are welcome, too!). Your instructors are TAGteach-certified to help you achieve your best with the most fun possible.
Selling/Increasing Sales Online and Why You Should
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The experts at Crystal Commerce, the leaders in game, hobby, and collectible industry eCommerce software, will teach you how to use the internet to increase your sales that are best for your store.
Educational gaming runs the spectrum from group-play board games to mobile apps. Edupress and Evanced Games are working to add delight to educational games as they connect classroom and living room.
Student groups are part of education today, and a dramatic influence at school. How do we make these groups worth our time, and more than just a couple friends and an empty classroom?
Come and play the newest version of Hackmaster! In the world of Rua'Ethso, something funny is happening under the city. Funny weird, not funny haha. Old fashioned Dungeon Crawl!
So, you're a VIG, what does that mean once you get to the Con? Come learn all the details about the Lounge, buying tickets, and exclusive events. VIG and VIG Companion only.
Join Paizo Publisher Erik Mona, and Director of Sales Pierce Watters, as they preview new product releases for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, coming 2013. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
Games can develop fundamental thinking skills, just as weight machines can develop muscle groups.
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Intellectual games exist where the challenge to win is so much fun that they subconsciously increase specific skills such as reading and pattern recognition.We will discuss the value of games of both types in the learning environment, and show you through hand-on play that games can be effective teaching tools for learning through having fun.
Learn to play the sword-clashing, butt-kicking Hong Kong cinematic action card game so epic it would take fourteen John Woos, Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh to film! Free cards for playing!
A cold wind blows through the town. Mysterious deaths, unusual sounds, weird Wikipedia pages. Horror with a modern day twist. What can it all mean? Are you brave enough to find out?
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We've run games of Mayfair Chill for years, but now we plan on trying our own system. Same spirit and fun characters, but a brand new system. Come give it a try.
Two complete sets with all expansion tiles, plus many bonus tiles = over 1,000 tiles, twelve players divided into six teams. Who will rule the kingdom?
Geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Players take senior leadership positions in a real-world nation. Can you solve the world’s problems? New countries and problems in every game.
Rua'ethso's governing body is wondering what is going on with the splinter group taking refuge on Island #210, and why their plans involve a rumored underground base of operations!
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The game will primarily be a straight hack and slash 4 hour session. New and experienced players alike are welcome to join us!
Take on the roles of the great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, as they vie for control of the Iron Throne through the use of diplomacy and warfare.
Primary Sources and Board Games for History Education
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Primary sources are a valuable resource for history education, but tracking sources down for lessons and using them in engaging ways within the classroom can be difficult and time intensive.
Join us for the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Stink, the original Wednesday night Gen Con event. Come to socialize and play games with new people and old friends.
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It's the Return of... Revenge of... Son of...Bride of... Heir of... THE STINK! Ten years ago, Gen Con Community Forum members met to kick off Gen Con with the 1st Stink. A decade later, the Mavens still celebrate that fated night. This night will star games, gaming groups, and gamers. Join us for the original Wednesday night event.
Enough said. What's that? You aren't familiar with Grimtooth's work? Fiendishly clever traps designed to maim and kill arrogant, careless dungeon delvers, or whoever walks into the trap first.
The shifting alliances of the Factions threaten the well-being of all and leave some to fend for survival. A drifting mistship, caught in the currents of the Eye? Avast, me hearties, Salvation!
They say the 'Byss changes a man. Looking into the emptiness. But when does mangling and killing for no reason get fun? At least the Boosters left some nice swag behind. Hey, did that thing move?
The bodies of street urchins found mangled in the dirty alleys. The Great Detective has sent you to help the Jimmers root out the Mangler, to stop the slaughter of the children ... and yourselves.
Don’t talk about dead characters, play them! Bring your favorite departed PC then stand with (and against) other late heroes in an all-out competition to be the new Planar Champion.
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Players will provide a “soul” (any character, any edition, subject to DM approval). Dead PCs will be fitted with a 3.5 "dead hero" template (to equalize competitors; the gods want a fair fight) and brought before divine and diabolical spectators where the tournament will be explained. Players will then outfit themselves in the tournament “locker room” for the tests they expect to face. Alliances and teams are allowed, as is nearly anything else in your quest to prove yourself to the greater powers, but there can be only one Planar Champion. Emphasis (as always) is on appeasing and glorifying the deities so your role playing can be as important as your roll playing - personal combat will not be the only factor. The Planar Champion will have the option to return in successive years to defend the title against whatever upstart fodder the gods see fit to dredge up…
The Caspian Derby is the richest day of racing, drawing racers from across Western Immoren. It is a day of festival and feasting, but behind the pomp and pagentry intrigues are afoot!
LNOE the Zombie game. 8 heroes will try to save the townsfolk while also trying for the 'kill of the week' to win a prize.
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Come play Last Night on Earth, one of the best Zombie games out there today. We will be combining the original and Timber Peak set for a gigantic board. 8 heroes will try to save the townsfolk, earn the 'Kill of the Night' and try to amass the most kills. Easy to learn and welcome to new players. All instructions are on the cards. Winner at the end of the game will get a prize.
Do you want to play a game like right now?! Well, let us tell you all about this dynamic, easy system guaranteed to have you playing within 15 minutes of coming up with your character concept.
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Do you want to play a game? Like right now?! Well, let us tell you all about QAGS, a dynamic, easy system guaranteed to have you playing within 15 minutes of coming up with your character concept. Better yet, let us show you! If you've ever thought you'd love to role-play but don't have the patience for lots of math and record-keeping, this is the system for you.
Start Gen Con with a casual game! Custom tournament rules will be explained the evening of the event. Materials and prizes provided by U.S. Games Systems.
Learn to play the sword-clashing, butt-kicking Hong Kong cinematic action card game so epic it would take fourteen John Woos, Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh to film! Free cards for playing!
Learn to play a roleplaying game based in The Lord of the Rings after the events of The Hobbit. Play a Beorning, Barding, Hobbit of the Shire, Mirkwood Elf, Woodman, or Dwarf of the Lonely Mountain.
A group of Frost Dwarves fight their way deep into the Black Ice of Karad Marn to find an ancient burial vault, which may hold the key to turning the tide of the sixty year battle against the orcs.
A mysterious light glows in the darkest desert night. Many claim a lost temple full of otec exists. The cult of Xor’tel controls the area rumored to hold the lost temple. Do you dare oppose them?
Hidden in the dark aether are dangers and secrets untold. Who else to go into that dark madness than the intrepid crew of a ... mining scow? May the Virgin have mercy!
A strange temple sits in the black heart of an ancient swamp. The Duke wants the area cleared and whatever threats found within destroyed. You can keep any treasure you find, if you survive.
Come to the RAM and enjoy a great dexterity dice game called Death Cup. Learn the game, meet the designer, and have a beer or two!
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Overview: Players start with 4 coins. The Shot Cup and Shot Dice move around the table. Players roll the Shot Dice to determine what action to take. A number rolled means a drink and a chance to win coins from other players, while a skull means a coin is given away. If three skulls are rolled, the Death Cup descends upon the table, and the game becomes a race to give it away. Terrible things await the player who lets the two cups cross paths. When the Death Cup has dispatched all but three players, the final show-down begins: a blitzing battle of attrition in both coins and sobriety until only one player is left standing.
Race your friends to safety in this quick, light-hearted zombie apocalypse board game ideal for family play, a party game night, or a 'beer and pretzels' type session.
You are part of a team contending with the outbreak of 4 diseases worldwide. Can you find cures for the diseases before the outbreaks exceed containment?
Basic social games, we will explore the use of games in the classroom and other learning environments to develop language arts, remedial math, social skills and higher order thinking skills.
This seminar will bring players and retailers up to date in the latest developments and the future of the Malifaux universe. Including Through The Breach & Malifaux 2nd Edition.
A special scenario with gameplay influenced by Call of Duty: Zombies! Turn on the power, get to the Mystery Box, and grab yourselves some Wonder Weapons!
So, you're a VIG, what does that mean once you get to the Con? Come learn all the details about the Lounge, buying tickets, and exclusive events. VIG and VIG Companion only.
Race your friends to safety in this quick, light-hearted zombie apocalypse board game ideal for family play, a party game night, or a 'beer and pretzels' type session.
A special scenario with gameplay influenced by Call of Duty: Zombies! Turn on the power, get to the Mystery Box, and grab yourselves some Wonder Weapons!
Time is on your side as you need to set the timeline straight. A vacation goes awry on the trip of a lifetime. Thwart hi-jackers, pirates, lycans, and political intrigue.
Join the Freedom 5 and other heroes from Greater Than Games, Sentinels of the Multiverse card game, as they try to stop Citizen Dawn and Citizens of the Sun, from ridding the world of all non-supers.
So, you're a VIG, what does that mean once you get to the Con? Come learn all the details about the Lounge, buying tickets, and exclusive events. VIG and VIG Companion only.
Cards. Dice. Zombies. Play in the Pittsburgh 68 Zombie World Series! Have some grim fun trying to keep the Survivors ahead of the zombie shuffle. A cooperative card game until it’s not!
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Pittsburgh 68 is a fast-paced card-n-dice game that plays like a good old creepy zombie flick. Players are never truly out of the game-if eliminated, they just shuffle back in as zombies. One by one, the players will find out why slow moving zombies rule! This game is part of a “world series” run by GameWick Games, where each individual game scores a point for the winning team. Will the Survivors prevail for the series or will it be a total zombie apocalypse?!? Series results announced at the end of summer.
If you are signed up for “Shorefall: Freeing the Land” this is your chance to make a character and avoid using a premade character. Others welcome, supplies limited.
Come to the RAM and enjoy a great dexterity dice game called Death Cup. Learn the game, meet the designer, and have a beer or two!
Description:
Overview: Players start with 4 coins. The Shot Cup and Shot Dice move around the table. Players roll the Shot Dice to determine what action to take. A number rolled means a drink and a chance to win coins from other players, while a skull means a coin is given away. If three skulls are rolled, the Death Cup descends upon the table, and the game becomes a race to give it away. Terrible things await the player who lets the two cups cross paths. When the Death Cup has dispatched all but three players, the final show-down begins: a blitzing battle of attrition in both coins and sobriety until only one player is left standing.
Pilot a 'Mech! Get into your very own cockpit with over 90 functional controls and 7 monitors. Chose your 'Mech and battle it out against up to 11 other friends for 7 minutes of action.
Hoplomachus [ha-ploh-ma-kuss] is a hex-based tactical board game set inside a gladiatorial arena. Choose from 5 cities with unique units and abilities. Face off in a series of quick sparing matches!
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Hoplomachus [ha-ploh-ma-kuss], or 'Hoplo' for short, is a hex-based tactical board game set inside a gladiatorial arena. ***TRAINING GROUNDS: These training grounds offer a new variation of combat that complements the original Hoplo. This quick-play version is a series of spars.*** Choose from 5 cities with unique units and abilities. Test your mettle against fierce beasts, dangerous criminals, and other rival cities with skills as impressive as yours. The crowd is watching and its favor has the power to grant you great benefits in battle. Hoplo uses a unique combination of premium components: 11.5 gram chips, a neoprene gaming mat, and laser etched dice create a dynamic and visually stunning battle scene. Game modes: Solo, Co-op, or Versus. 1-4 players. Hoplomachus is our flagship Kickstarter project and was recently voted BEST 2012 CROWD-FUNDED GAME OF THE YEAR by our reviewers.
It's good to be the Overlord, but you'll have to send your headsman out to make sure you hold the throne. A light hot-potato passing card game - Keep your head!